Damon Albarn: The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows at The Barbican

Damon Albarn: The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows
Mon 21 & Tue 22 Feb 2022, Barbican Hall, 8pm
Tickets £20 – 40 plus booking fee
What can be more fascinating than the signs of the passage of time and the fragility of nature?
Singer, songwriter and composer Damon Albarn will bring his current project The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows to the Barbican in February 2022. He will perform this very personal, new piece with an ensemble of musicians. The event title is taken from a John Clare poem entitled Love and Memory. A new album The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows, was released to acclaim in November 2021, a panoramic collection of songs inspired by the landscapes of Iceland exploring themes of fragility, loss, emergence and rebirth, with Albarn as sage and storyteller. Much like the beauty and chaos of the natural world it soundtracks, The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows vividly documents the emotional ebb and flow of the human condition, in all its extremes, serving as a soul enriching document for our times.
Produced by the Barbican